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DC Reveals Creative Teams, Partial Covers for “Futures End”

DC Comics has revealed the full creative lineups for its September 2014 “Futures End” event month tie-in issues, along with as a look at the first two weeks of lenticular covers. Most of the writers on individual titles match up with their respective ongoing series, though there are quite a few new artists associated with some of the one-shots. Notably, the “Booster Gold” one-shot — not linked to a current ongoing series — includes six different pencilers.

Although not out until September, the issues were solicited in DC Comics’ July 2014 Solicitations due to the complicated process of producing the lenticular 3D motion covers, and gave retailers an order cutoff of May 29 to make sure there would be enough supply to meet demand. Last year’s “Villains Months” lenticular covers were allocated, creating some frustration among retailers and collectors.

“I find [it] really hard to believe [that the creative teams have not been completely determined],” Alonso said. “For one or two titles, maybe, but for the whole line? From a production standpoint alone, each of those issues should be in outline form, at the very least, just in order to hit deadline. No, it’s a strategic move to put up big numbers in the month of September, and don’t think anyone benefits from it in the long-term.”

That said, DC’s release of the creative teams beats the May 29 deadline by 13 days, meaning retailers still have the opportunity to gauge order levels before buying in for the more expensive 3-D lenticular covers.